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    Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan – Oxford University Press Archived 31 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Thomas, Hobbes (2006). Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan. Rogers...
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    Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds...
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    Bellum omnium contra omnes (category Thomas Hobbes)
    description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651). The...
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    creation of a state, Hobbes grounds his political philosophy in his moral thought. This approach to moral philosophy is executed by Hobbes through discussion...
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    Scientia potentia est (category Thomas Hobbes)
    Proverbs 24:5 Thomas Hobbes, Opera philosophica..., Volume III (Leviathan [1668]), p. 69 Thomas Hobbes, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury...
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    democratic system fell, aristocracy was upheld. In his 1651 book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes describes an aristocracy as a commonwealth in which the representative...
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  • S2CID 154964034. Estrada, Fernando (2012). "El Leviathan de Thomas Hobbes (The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes)". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2127939...
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    God's fullness beyond, from which all good emanates. In Hobbes, who draws on Job 41:24, the Leviathan becomes a metaphor for the omnipotence of the state...
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  • De Cive (category Books by Thomas Hobbes)
    Giuseppe (14 May 2012). "Hobbes: the frontispieces". homolaicus.com (in Italian). Torino. Retrieved 11 September 2012. Hobbes, Thomas (1983). Warrender, Howard...
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  • written by Thomas Hobbes. The 1682 edition of the book begins with a note from William Crooke in answer to why he was publishing this edition. Hobbes had made...
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  • philosophy by Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (Auster novel), a 1992 novel by Paul Auster Leviathan (Westerfeld novel), a 2009 novel by Scott Westerfeld Leviathan, a 1975...
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  • Leviathan is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut that was founded in 2007. Leviathan is named after Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book...
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  • systems promoted by Boyle and Hobbes. The "Leviathan" in the title is Hobbes's book on the structure of society, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power...
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    Social contract (category Thomas Hobbes)
    arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute government as the only alternative to the terrifying anarchy of a state of nature. Hobbes asserted that humans...
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    general. Leviathan (or more precisely Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is the title of Thomas Hobbes' 1651...
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  • polity at a time. Thomas Hobbes was a highly significant figure in the conceptualisation of polities, in particular of states. Hobbes considered notions...
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  • derives its authority. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) included a discussion of natural rights in his moral and political philosophy. Hobbes' conception of natural...
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  • thoughts" was introduced and elaborated as early as in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan, though with a somewhat different meaning (similar to the meaning...
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    person's zone of liberty begins and ends. Where Hobbes and Locke differ is the extent of the zone. Hobbes, who took a rather negative view of human nature...
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  • State of nature (category Thomas Hobbes)
    From here, Hobbes developed the way out of the state of nature into political society and government by mutual contracts. According to Hobbes, the state...
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    social philosophers referred to the concept in early works. In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes discusses how the state exerts social order using civil and military...
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  • Natural law (section Hobbes)
    938–940. Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (The Citizen), ed. Sterling P. Lamprecht (New York, 1949; orig. 1642), ch. 2, sec. 2 (p. 29). Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or...
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    kinematics, but a claimed proof of the squaring of the circle by Hobbes. While Hobbes retracted this particular proof, he returned to the topic with other...
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  • Green, Reader & Dyer. pp. 51–2. Retrieved 28 July 2014. Hobbes, Thomas (1982) [1651]. Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical...
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    of the tail to a cedar tree. The 17th-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes named the Long Parliament 'Behemoth' in his book Behemoth. It accompanies...
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  • scholastic philosophy, and all reflect "Hobbes' commitment to the new science of Galileo and Harvey". This is known as "Hobbes' Table of Absurdity". "Combining...
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  • Tönnies was a Thomas Hobbes scholar—he edited the standard modern editions of Hobbes's The Elements of Law and Leviathan. It was his study of Hobbes that encouraged...
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  • Vaughan 1651 El alcalde de Zalamea – Pedro Calderón de la Barca LeviathanThomas Hobbes Reliquiae Wottonianiae – Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous) Jeune Alcidiane...
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  • established should not be changed for light and transient causes". In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued that, since they have consented to invest their sovereign...
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  • the real world. Hobbes grew up in Columbus, Ohio. His name is a reference to the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes used a Heckler...
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